Geary & Stockton
View northwest across intersection toward Union Square. Well-dressed shoppers waiting on corner. St. Francis Hotel, Dewey Monument. Fitzhugh Building in background. Truck piled with junk furniture.
Downtown / Union SquarePeople
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Golden Gate Park
View across Music Concourse from Academy of Sciences. de Young Museum. Francis Scott Key Monument. Sea lion enclosure. Muni buses and people walking.
Golden Gate Park
Japanese Tea Garden
Golden Gate Park, interior Japanese Tea Garden near Temple Gate (from Japanese display in the Food Products Building at the PPIE). People taking pictures. Sailor in uniform.
Golden Gate Park
Market & 7th
View east from center of Market at 7th Street. Hotel Shaw, Crocker Anglo Bank, Paramount Theatre, Warfield Theatre on left. On right, David Hewes Building, Weinstein's Department Store, Centre Theatre playing 'La Dolce Vita,' United Artists Theatre playing 'West Side Story,' Federal Hotel, Merrill's Drugs and Grant Building at right with Foster's.
South of Market
Union Square
View east from Powell near Post toward Union Square on a sunny day. Dewey Monument, Whittell Building, Central Tower in background. TWA billboard. Crowds of people and Palm trees in the square.
Downtown / Union Square
Market & Leavenworth
View north on Leavenworth on Market (now site of UN Plaza). Federal Office Building. Empire Hotel (now part of Hastings Law School).
South of Market
Powell near Ellis
View north on Powell toward Ellis. Cable car #501. Compton's Cafeteria, Golden State Hotel. Woolworth's.
Downtown / Union Square
Junipero Serra & Ocean
View north on Junipero Serra on Ocean. K-line streetcar #1103 loading passengers.
Merced Manor
Taylor near Chestnut
View north on Taylor toward Francisco. Cable car #514.
North Beach
Ferry Building
View west from ferry toward the Ferry Building with 'Port of San Francisco' sign. S-P sign on Southern Pacific Building (installed 1954).
Blairmore, Sailing Ship
Group of people posed in front of iron sailing ship Blairmore tied up at pier. U.S. Navy battleship anchored offshore, possibly the USS Oregon. [F810 SH-026][Ship Blairmore at Ridson Iron Works, Beal & Howard Sts.] Should be 'Risdon Iron Works.' Their offices were at Beal and Howard. Yard was on waterfront of Potrero Hill on Georgia St. between 19th & 20th.
Central Waterfront
SS China, steamship
Hunters Point, Bow view of side-wheel steamer in dry-dock at Hunters Point. People posing on bow. [S.S. China 1868 in dry dock SF CAL No 42] Same image as Carleton Watkins stereoview 'Docking the China, Hunter's Point Dry Dock 1719' [F810 SH-053]
SS China, steamship
Hunters Point, Stern view of side-wheel steamer 'China' in dry dock. People posing on stern. Cropped from Carleton Watkins Stereoview. [1868 Hunters Point Dry Dock S.F. Cal No 39] [F810 SH-055]
SS China, steamship
Hunters Point, Bow view of sidewheel steamer Hunters Point, ship 'China' being moved into position in dry dock.[Docking the China. Hunter's Point dry dock S.F. 1877 No 44] [F810 SH-056]
USS Olympia, cruiser
Protected Cruiser USS Olympia (C-6). Probably Hunters Point. Stern view of U.S. Navy cruiser 'Olympia' in dry dock. Civilian and two sailors standing on deck. Olympia served as Admiral Dewey's Flagship in the battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898 in the Spanish American War. Built at Union Iron Works in Potrero Hill in 1892 and now at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia. The photo was taken just before or after sea trials, probably after, in 1893-1894 based on the pre-1900 sternplate, lack of turrets, and missing signal platforms. [In dry dock No. 128] [F810 SH-128B]
Hunters Point